Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Elizabeth Langlois can be contacted at eclangloisayahoodcom

Host Country: Cameroon

City (or cities) you served in: Jakiri

Year you began your peace corps service: 1989

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1991

Peace Corps Work Description (in one line): Math/science teacher

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Michael Wilcox can be contacted at kwossanetscapednet

Host Country: Cameroon

Training Group Name: The Wedge '93

City (or cities) you served in: Okola

Year you began your peace corps service: 1993

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1995

Peace Corps Work Description (in one line): Aquaculture Extension

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Aviva Meyer can be contacted at avivameyeraanimaildnet

Host Country: Cameroon

City (or cities) you served in: Doulayel

Year you began your peace corps service: 1994

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1997

Peace Corps Work Description (in one line): Health

Leave a message here if there was an incorrect or duplicate e-mail address for you in the "Directory of Volunteers": The mystic Seaport address is no longer functional. IT should go away. I have not worked there in over a year.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer David S. Campbell can be contacted at dcampbellavogelcampbelldcom

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Nancy Beam can be contacted at nkb8acolumbiadedu

Host Country: Cameroon

Training Group Name: Cameroon

City (or cities) you served in: Yokadouma

Year you began your peace corps service: 1987

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1989

Peace Corps Work Description (in one line): Health

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer scott williams can be contacted at scottwaclearspringsdcom

Host Country: cameroon

Training Group Name: inland fish

City (or cities) you served in: Minta, Bertoua, Yaounde

Year you began your peace corps service: 1985

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1988

Peace Corps Work Description (in one line): fish, PCVL

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Angela Dunlap Ayukachale can be contacted at ayukangelaaaoldcom

Host Country: Cameroon

Training Group Name: Math/Science Education

City (or cities) you served in: Tinto

Year you began your peace corps service: 1995

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1997

Peace Corps Work Description: I taught Biology and Chemistry to Form 2 and Form 3 students. I also manged the construction of the school's library. I then proceed to write to several organizations to receive book donations.

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: I was married in 5/97 to a HCN. I COSed in 6/97. I then moved back home to Phila., Pa. I gave birth to a baby boy in 4/98. I now work for a health insurance company as a systems specialist.

Anything else you would like people to know about your peace corps service: I think about the experiences that I had in Cameroon EVERYDAY.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?: I was very young and very dumb.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: Stephanie Bisse

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Anne Williams can be contacted at williaacageorgetowndedu

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: 1997-1999: Program Associate with Management Sciences for Health. Provided technical assistance in logistics and inventory management for Ministry of Health programs in Morocco, Haiti, and Guinea. 1999-2001: MBA at Georgetown University

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Maryanne Pribila can be contacted at mapribilaayahoodcom

Country of Service: Cameroon,

Training Group Name: Health Education,

Cities you served in: Monatele, Bogo,

Years of Service: 1/99-5/01,

Work Description: Community Health Educator

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

I am attending Tulane University, pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Health.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer karenorehowsky can be contacted at karenorehowskyahotmaildcom Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: TEFL 1986

Arrival Year: 1986

Departure Year: 1988

Work Description: TEFL Teacher

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Pauline Yale Madron can be contacted at pyalemahotmaildcom Country of Service: Cameroon and Togo

City (or cities) you served in: Mora and Lome

Year you began your peace corps service: 1986 and 1996

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1988 and 1998

Peace Corps Work Description:

Cameroon - Community Development PCV

Togo - APCD, Admin - staff

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Georgia Hall-Nguepdjo can be contacted at nguepdjog001ahawaiidrrdcom

Host Country: Cameroun

Training Group Name: Fisheries

City (or cities) you served in: Mbouda

Year you began your peace corps service: 1982

Year you completed your peace corps service: 1984

Peace Corps Work Description: Peace Corps Fisheries Volunteer in the Western Province of Cameroun, Mbouda Fisheries Station

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps (optional): Have been involved in Community Development (Aquaculture, Agriculture and Education) on Oahu, Hawaii. I am presently teaching English, Science and Social Studies to Special Education students in Kaimuki Middle School,Honolulu.

Anything else you would like people to know about your peace corps service [NOTE: Be sure and leave a short message on your country message board so people can see this profile right away.]: I lived near Bafoussam and would love to know how Theresa or Peggy are doing. Within my training group, how are the trainers: David, Richard...?My fellow trainees: John, Eric, David,

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Jolie Dennis can be contacted at Zambejiaahotmaildcom

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: Health Extension Agents

Cities you served in: Sangmelima

Arrival Year: 1994

Departure Year: 1998

Work Description: Worked as a Public Health Educator

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

I am currently working in the Social Services for a non-profit as a housing advocate in Portland, Oregon. I intend to apply for graduate school within the next year to obtain a Master's in Public Health. I am married.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Georgia A. Nguepdjo can be contacted at nguepdjogahawaiidrrdcom

Country of Service: Cameroun

Training Group: Mbalmyo

Cities you served in: Mbouda

Arrival Year: 82

Departure Year: 84

Work Description: Fisheries

Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description:

None

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Community Development projects in Hawaii ranging from Agriculture/Aquaculture, neighborhood grants to women and children and education. I am currently a teacher of Science and still in Hawaii

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Quite frankly, I wish I could do it now. I am so much wiser. . . And, far more knowledgeable. It's interesting that we send US youth to do what potentially is a life/work experienced job. This very act in some ways negates the purpose of Peace Corps. Countries of service and the people we work with realize our youth and inexperience and consequently feel their needs aren't given true value.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Mary Ellen Burkhardt, Lois of Njinikom, Peggy of Bandjoun, and so many more of those who served in Cameroun 82-84.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Edith Pana Romaine can be contacted at edieacoxncdrrdcom

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: Cameroon I

Cities you served in: Sasse

Arrival Year: 1962

Departure Year: 1964

Work Description: Secondary school math teacher

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Married fellow Cameroon I PCV, Mike Romaine (GTC Ombe) in Cameroon before returning to USA. Returned to math teaching after our 2 children entered junior high school. Lived in Dallas TX for almost 30 years, now retired to coastal North Carolina.

More than any other period or decision in my life, the Peace Corps determined who I am today. It was, indeed, the hardest and best thing I've ever done.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Mark Hardin Cameroon 76-78

Any message for returned volunteers?:

Keep involved in international affairs, through volunteer efforts or membership in organizations you believe in. Volunteer locally. Keep doing something about the inequities in the world. Share your experiences with young people - spark their imaginations as to what is possible in their lives.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Lois Weidman Sirucek can be contacted at dlsirucekain-tchdcom

Country of Service: Cmaeroon

Training Group: TEFL

Cities you served in: Meiganga

Arrival Year: 1979

Departure Year: 1981

Work Description: TEFL teacher

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Became certified as a secondary French/Spanish teacher; have been teaching sr. high French & Spanish for the past 19 years; have been in Kalispell, Montana for the last 15 years at Flathead High School. I got married to Dean Sirucek in 1991, and we have one daughter, Maggie, who is 10.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

I look on them with great fondness. I spent 2 of the best years of my life in Cameroon, despite the usual challenges. My teacher training gave me invaluable experience. I would not be teaching today had it not been for my Peace Corps experience!

Served as PC trainer in Cameroon, Togo, and Benin for 3 years after PCV service. Built log homes in Minnesota and Wisconsin from 1981 to present. Got Master's degree in Community Education in 1993. Served as APCD/Rural Development in Togo from 1996-99. In 1999,started DreamWeaver Travel, a tour company specializing in ecologically and culturally appropriate travel. currently offering eco-, culture-, and adventure tours to Cameroon, Togo, & Niger in West Africa and Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Guyana in South America.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Peace Corps absolutely changed my life, in so many and such positive ways! My world view broadened, my empathy for others strengthened, and my gratitude for my own lot in life increased manyfold.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Isabella Burns can be contacted at isabelaainternetcdsdcom

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: TEFL

Cities you served in: Obala and Yaounde

Arrival Year: 1967

Departure Year: 1969

Work Description: taught English in Obala lycee and worked summers and parttime second year in mental hospital - Centre Jamot - in Yaounde

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

I decided to improve my French, went to Paris and got a licence in French and Russian. I then joined the UN, passed the editors exam, and worked all over the world (Thailand, Iraq, Jordan). I am married to a Syrian (retired former UN official) and we have an 11 year-old daughter. I still work at home editing for the UN, but devote most of my time to my family - and to volunteering in school and the local animal shelter. Still dream of writing myself instead of editing other people's short stories. The Peace Corps is mainly responsible for the path my life has taken, and I am most grateful.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Mainly gratitude. Wish I had been more mature - I was oly 21 - but not too many middle-aged people are willing to live without running water and electricity for two years. Also (now I really sound like an old fogey)we really were cut off from the outside world in a way current volunteers are not; we had no e-mail or tv for two years. I have had some difficult times - for example, when I was trapped in Baghdad while working for the UN in August 1990. During the three long weeks when the borders were closed after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, I told myself that if I could survive two years alone in the African bush, there was nothing Saddam Hussein could do to me. What I call my "Peace Corps pep talks" helped then, and they still do.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Isabella Burns can be contacted at isabelaainternetcdsdcom

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: Boston University - Quebec province, summer 1967

Cities you served in: Obala (two years) and Yaounde (summer 68)

Arrival Year: 1967

Departure Year: 1969

Work Description: taught English in a lycee and worked in mental hospital

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: I discovered that I loved languages, which I did not know before, as I was a journalism major in college. I went to Paris after the Peace Corps, taught English in a French company and went back to university to get a "licence" in French and Russian literature. I then joined the United Nations, passed a worldwide exam for editors, and worked in New York, Bangkok, Baghdad and Amman for over 20 years. I met my Syrian husband, who also worked for the UN, in Baghdad. I had my first, and only, child at age 45 here in Ashland, Oregon after my husband and I were evacuated from Baghdad in the summer of 1990. We are now retired (I still edit at home for the UN parttime) and raising our daughter here in Ashland. I have to say that during many difficult times in my life (such as when I was trapped in Baghdad in August 1990), I fortified myself by saying that I could survive anything if I made it through two years in the African bush. I am prouder of having been in the Peace Corps than of anything else I have ever done. I think that Africa gave me more than I was able to give back: I learned who I really was.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?: I now - at age 56 - have many more "life skills" than I did at age 21, when I went to Cameroon. I think I could be a better teacher now, and perhaps be of greater help to the mental patients I worked with in my summer job. However - and this is the reason most volunteers are young - I do not know now if I would have survived the severe attack of malaria I had, or if I could now be as tolerant of the mice-size bugs, the lack of electricity or running water. However, I would love to see Cameroon again.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: From my Peace Corps group: Steve and Kathy Weed; George Cass; Mary Hausbeck; Will Smalzer.

Any message for returned volunteers?: I think that the Peace Corps experience can change your life, and lead to discover the best - and worse - in you.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Herb Whinna can be contacted at whinnaamedduncdedu

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: Summer 1983 Ed/Fish/Coops/CD

Cities you served in: Nguti

Arrival Year: 1983

Departure Year: 1985

Work Description: Education

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: School, more school, training, more training...now on the faculty at UNC-CH School of Medicine doing mostly basic research and some other stuff...married, two kids (g&b, ages 10&7),dog, house, bills...the usual...

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?: still think it was an excellent time...

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: any/everybody...

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Adam Willcox can be contacted at awillcox75aaoldcom

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: '96 agroforestry

Cities you served in: Ebeagwa, Nguti

Arrival Year: 1996

Departure Year: 1998

Work Description: Agroforestry Extension Agent

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: Worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Cameroon through March 2001. Completed a Master of Science degree in Conservation Biology at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, UK in September 2002. Will start a PhD program at Imperial College, UK in September 2003.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Normand Gerard Fortin can be contacted at normanddfortinaualbertadca

Country of Service: Cameroun

Training Group: Francophone TEFL -- La Pocatière, Quebec

Cities you served in: Maroua

Arrival Year: 1969

Departure Year: 1971

Work Description: TEFL teacher, Teacher trainer (Taught in French at the Cours Normal)

Other Countries you served in, Training Group Name Arrival Year, Departure Year, Work Description: I taught TEFL at the Cours Normal, Cours Élémentaire, and École Ménagère in Maroua, Cameroun. I was the first PCV to be placed in Maroua because of my command of French. In order to get placed in Maroua, I had to be assigned to the Cours Normal and had to teach other subjects in French: camerounian history and geography, music, science, penmanship to future primary school teachers who did not have the marks to go on to CEG.

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: 1971-72, I worked in Conakry, Guinea for the World ORT Union based in Geneva. I taught TEFL to Bauxiet Company employees. I immigrated to Canada in 1974, got a M.Ed from Université de Sherbrooke in 1979. Worked as Educational consultant and Education professor at University of Regina (Saskatchewan)and St Boniface College (Winnipeg). Since 1988, I have been in university administration and have worked in French since I have returned from Africa.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?: I am thinking very much about my Cameroun experiences these days since I am retyping letters from Cameroun I sent to friends and families asking them to keep and give to me upon my return. I had put them aside in the hopes of doing something with them one day. I am finding out that they are an excellent journal when I type them in chronological order. Events I talk about are so fresh in my mind. It's like they happened just yesterday -- and it has been some 30 years.

Our 1969--TEFL Cameroun group is so close. We have reunited every 10 years and have gone to meeting every 5 years as we get older. The last reunion was last August when some of the group visited me at my summer home in Quebec just 15 minutes away from the college at La Pocatière where we trained. We also have our own Christmas newsletter which was started in 1970. We wonder if there are other PC groups which have remained as good friends and so close.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: Mike Merenda, who trained in La Poc in 69 and I think went to the Ivory Coast. He was an excellent piano player.

Also, any other volunteer who have been posted in Maroua since 1969. As the first volunteer in Maroua, I feel I opened up Northern Cameroun for the Peace Corps -- and broke the ground for the others. I was also the first American Maroua had seen. If anyone is there today, I would love to get pictures of Maroua, especially my house which was in front of the cotton mill on the road into town from the airport. (I realize Maroua might have changed since 71 and the factory might not be there anymore.) I LOVED Maroua even though being so far away from the other PCV's was difficult at first. I'd love to hear from today's PCV in Maroua.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Louise Teel can be contacted at lteelausuhsdmil

Country of Service: Cameroon

Cities you served in: Ebolowa

Arrival Year: 1972

Departure Year: 1974

Work Description: TEFL

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: Got MS in Microbiology on return from Cameroon At U of Pittsburgh. Worked in labs and taught until going back to grad school for PhD in Microbiology. Currently teaching and doing research in diarrheal diseases at federal medical school in Bethesda, MD

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: PC training group for Cameroon and CAR from 1972

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Mauricia Baca can be contacted at MauriciadBacaausdojdgov

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: Charlottesville

Cities you served in: Mboua

Arrival Year: 1993

Departure Year: 1995

Work Description: Aquaculture extension agent

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: I am currently working as an attorney with Department of Justice in the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Divison. I've been here a little over two years,a nd live in Washington, DC. I started here right after law school. Before law school, I lived in New York City, and worked as a community organizer with a non profit organization called the Straphangers' Campaign doing city-wide mass transit advocacy.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Willliam John Kane can be contacted at NJLAPaaoldcom

Country of Service: Cameroun 1

Training Group: Cameroun 1 Ohio University - Athens

Cities you served in: Kumba, Bambui/Bamenda and Douala

Arrival Year: 1962

Departure Year: 1964

Work Description: Teacher at first faculty of Cameroon College of Arts and Sciences: Community Development

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps: Attorney, Director of New Jersey Lawyers Assistance Program, adjunct faculty at Universities every year after returning from PC.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?: Cameroon RPCVs particularly Projects I, II or III.

Any message for returned volunteers?: Our PC training in 1962 mentioned "culture shock" after settling into host country--never happened. Returning home in 1964 with new perspective was a curiously insightful experience. Do today's returning RPCVs have any "reverse culture shock?"

Other work: Women in Development HIV/AIDS education presentations Teacher training grants Career Day at GSS Enyoh

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

2000-2001 Team Leader: AmeriCorps 2001-Present: Research Assistant for several clinical studies Near Future: Will attend nursing school

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

I wish I could do it all again. I would apply what I learned and enjoy so much more the simple pleasures of village life. I wish I would have dealved deeper into traditional culture. The cell phone and computer are taking over, traditions are dying out and I let it all pass by me while I was there.

I've worked in teh fields of international developent and international education since PC working for the Fulbright scholar program, on various USAID training projects and at a university in teh field of education abroad.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Its the greatest experience of my life and made me who I am today.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

Noone in particular.

Any message for returned volunteers?:

Use Peace Corps as a bridge to many things. It can really open your eyes to the world.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Paul J. Hamel can be contacted at paulhamelasbcglobaldnet

Country of Service: Cameroon

Training Group: TEFL

Cities you served in: Bafia

Arrival Year: 1969

Departure Year: 1971

Work Description:

I was a teacher at the Lycee de Bafia

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

I am the principal of Westside Community Adult School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Our school serves 15,000 adults and high school concurrent students. Our service area covers Hollywood, the City of West Hollywood and West Los Angeles.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

My experience was one of the most profound experiences in my life. It taught me to appreciate what we have.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

I would like to see photos of Bafia. How has it changed after 35 years.

Any message for returned volunteers?:

If I can help with information for those interested in becoming a teacher in the Los Angeles Unfied School District, call me at (323) 653-4085.